Tuesday, May 5, 2015

10:13 AM

West Bend's mayor, while testifying in favor of repealing prevailing wage, expressed frustration over how the law at times applies to privately built projects.

Kraig Sadownikow said that in 2010 a local group went door to door collecting money for a new stage, park pavilion and band shelter at the city's Regner Park. The group, in three years, raised more than $600,000 for the project, he said.

The city agreed to take over the structures once they were built, Sadownikow said, and that triggered the prevailing wage law. He called circumstances such as that a "lesser known but equally egregious part of the law," adding that 100 percent of the money bought only 75 percent of what could have been purchased.